Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Full-time · San Francisco · On-site

💰 Compensation:

$350K to $450K base salary plus meaningful equity

📍 Location:

San Francisco, on-site

At Dynamism, we partner with breakout startups backed by Sequoia, a16z, and Y Combinator to help them hire engineers with founder energy: people who build fast, think like owners, and thrive in zero-to-one environments.

We're hiring for this role at an early-stage applied AI company building high-fidelity environments, tasks, data, and evaluation infrastructure that help frontier models learn reliable behavior in real work. The company works closely with frontier AI labs and enterprises, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, BCV, and SV Angel. Its engineering-first team brings together former founders, researchers, and deeply technical builders who value speed with rigor, truth over comfort, and precision under pressure.

🎯 The Role

You will lead the software layer beneath complex partner deployments, deciding how bespoke environment, data, and evaluation work becomes repeatable infrastructure. The role combines architecture, hands-on delivery, research judgment, and close collaboration with frontier model teams.

🧩 What You'll Own

• Architecture for deployment services, integrations, environment runtimes, and evaluation tooling

• The most complex partner deployments from technical discovery through reliable delivery

• Reliability, performance, and observability where training and evaluation work runs at scale

• Technical standards and reusable patterns that other deployment engineers can build on

• Escalations where correctness, research validity, and turnaround time all matter

✅ You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have founded a company, worked as an early engineer, or owned outcomes in a high-agency environment

• Are a technical generalist who can cross engineering, research, data, and partner-facing work

• Can communicate with clarity while priorities and context change quickly

• Use AI agents deeply while retaining your own technical taste and judgment

• Think in systems and move quickly without sacrificing detail or reliability

🛠 Stack

Python, TypeScript, containers, distributed systems, data tooling, evaluation harnesses, AI agent workflows

Bonus if you've:

• Built or led an early-stage company

• Worked on AI evaluations, post-training, model behavior, or simulated environments

• Collaborated directly with frontier model researchers or demanding technical customers

• Built deployment, data, or research infrastructure under rapidly changing requirements

📋 Role Details

• Compensation: $350K to $450K base salary plus meaningful equity

• Location: San Francisco, on-site

• Full-time and on-site

This role will not suit someone looking for routine, a narrow technical silo, or a management-only position. The team moves quickly, expects direct ownership, and does not trade quality for speed.

Apply via LinkedIn, or reach us at apply@sfdynamism.com.

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